Baton

Baton is the Silicon Valley-based technology innovation lab for Ryder, a Fortune 500 logistics company that owns 260K trucks and manages $7.4B of freight. Before being acquired by Ryder in September 2022, Baton was a venture-backed startup that was voted the #4 most disruptive company in freight! (Amazon was #3) Our mission is to eliminate waste in the supply chain by creating a digital platform t

San Francisco, CA, USA200 people

7 open roles

Operations · San Francisco, California, United States

People job in San Francisco

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Product · San Francisco, California, United States

Product job in San Francisco

$190k–$240kApply
Engineering · San Francisco, California, United States

Engineering job in San Francisco

$162k–$216kApply
$260k–$350kApply
Engineering · San Francisco, California, United States

Engineering job in San Francisco

$162k–$216kApply
Engineering · San Francisco, California, United States

Engineering job in San Francisco

$162k–$216kApply

Roles are read from Baton’s Greenhouse every hour and disappear here as soon as they close there.

Data insights

Baton hiring insights

Counted from every role read from its board, compared with every startup listed on firsthires.live.

Key findings

  • Baton has the 901st most open roles of 2,328 startups hiring on firsthires.live.
  • 7 open roles is 0.6× the average hiring startup (11.6).
  • 71% of openings are in Engineering, then People (14%).
  • Most roles are mid level (71%). None are tagged for graduates or interns.
  • With a team of about 200, these openings would grow headcount by up to 4%.
  • Engineering pay here (median $189k) is 1% above the market median for Engineering ($188k).
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  • 100% of its roles post pay, against 39% across all listed startups.
  • 0% of its roles are fully remote (market: 21%).
  • 7 roles added in the last 30 days; 0 closed in the last 90.
  • A typical open listing here is 3 months old, against 58 days across the site.

Hiring momentum

Momentum score50out of 100Too little data

50 is flat. Blends the 4-week change, the 12-week trend and net roles added.

Added, last 4 weeks
00%
vs 0 in the 4 weeks before
Added last week
00%
Week before: 0
Weekly trend
+0.00
Roles/week, per week · R² 0.00
Net roles, 4 weeks
+0
0 added − 0 closed
Forecast this week
0
Holt exponential smoothing
Average week
0.0
σ 0.0 · CV —
4-week refresh rate
0%
New roles ÷ open roles
4-week churn
0%
Closed roles ÷ open roles
Median time listed
>90 days
0% close within 30 days
Roles added and closed per weekAddedClosed4-week avg
Week of 3 Aug: 0 added, 0 closed, net +0Week of 10 Aug: 0 added, 0 closed, net +0Week of 17 Aug: 0 added, 0 closed, net +0Week of 24 Aug: 0 added, 0 closed, net +0Week of 31 Aug: 0 added, 0 closed, net +0Week of 7 Sept: 0 added, 0 closed, net +0Week of 14 Sept: 0 added, 0 closed, net +0Week of 21 Sept: 0 added, 0 closed, net +0Week of 28 Sept: 0 added, 0 closed, net +0Week of 5 Oct: 0 added, 0 closed, net +0Week of 12 Oct: 0 added, 0 closed, net +0Week of 19 Oct: 0 added, 0 closed, net +0Week of 26 Oct (so far): 7 added, 0 closed, net +7
Week of 3 AugThis week (so far)

Momentum, explained

  • Baton hasn’t added enough roles in the last few months to read a trend yet.

Hiring history

Roles ever listed here
7
Roles added in 30 days
7
Roles added in 90 days
7
Roles closed in 90 days
0
Tracked since
Oct 2026
Rank by open roles
#901
of 2,328 hiring startups
Openings per current employee
0.04

Volume and freshness

Open roles
7
Listed in the last 7 days
0
0% of open roles
Listed in the last 30 days
1
14% of open roles
Typical listing age
3 months
Oldest: 45 months

Pay

Median posted pay
$189k
Annual USD, range midpoint
Middle half of pay
$189k–$220k
25th to 75th percentile
Roles that post pay
100%
7 of 7
Mention equity
0%

Work, level and access

Fully remote
0%
Say they sponsor visas
0
Graduate and intern roles
0
Median experience asked
4 yrs

Breakdowns

Roles added per month7 roles
MayJunJulAugSeptOct
By the month firsthires.live first saw each role.
Roles by team
  1. 1Engineering571%
  2. 2People114%
  3. 3Product114%
Roles by level
  1. 1Mid level571%
  2. 2Manager114%
  3. 3Staff114%
Where the work happens
  1. 1Not stated7100%
Top cities named
  1. 1San Francisco7100%
Contract type
  1. 1Not stated7100%
Departments on the board
  1. 1Engineering571%
  2. 2Operations114%
  3. 3Product114%
Posted pay spread (annual USD)
$150kLow$189k25th$189kMedian$220k75th$350kHigh

Pay is each role’s posted range converted to annual US dollars, midpoint. See every Baton role.